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I keep saying that, one year, I'm gonna do a Christmas something in a snow-less setting. You know, all grey and rainy and in the upper 50s. Something of all us Southerners who are just a TAD annoyed at how a bunch of New Englanders decided what Christmas was supposed to look like for the whole world... and then I sit down to actually draw a page, see all that blank white space, and the temptation to have less to color in is just too much.

But yeah! The Christmas cavalcade begins! We're gonna have a new color comic every day from now until the 25th, and I've got some fairly nifty surprises in store along the way. So strap in!

...and if you're already getting sick of Christmas stuff, don't worry. Voting Incentives and Patreon comics will keep going in the usual manner. Oh, and you can always keep discussing Ichabod/Stilez theories to pass the time, too :D

@Stefan - Tabitha maybe. And Bridget is probably creeped out but won't ever admit it. But poor, timid, cautious, easily-creeped-out little Alphonse is right there next to him! How is that possible? I imagine that Vengeance sat down after they got in and Tabitha has instructed Alphonse not to turn around and look behind him at any cost for the duration of the trip. Which is probably already making him very nervous as it is.

The honest answer: I wasn't really paying attention to who was where in that panel. Honestly, we should've only seen the very top of Vengeance's head poking up from the back. The fact that we can see him clearly, but AVATAR is mostly obscured is kind of a big mistake on my part.

In fact, he should probably be sitting with the luggage, for reasons no one is willing to ask about.